I am creating a job board site. Right now I can successfully register an Employer but when I try to create a job listing while logged in as an Employer, the data from the form does not save to the database. I have the following models.py:
from django.db import models
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.db.models.signals import post_save
from django.dispatch import receiver
from django.http import HttpResponse
# Create your models here.
class Employer(models.Model):
user = models.OneToOneField(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
def __str__(self):
return self.user.first_name
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def create_employer(sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
if created:
Employer.objects.create(user=instance)
@receiver(post_save, sender=User)
def save_employer(sender, instance, **kwargs):
instance.employer.save()
class Job(models.Model):
poster = models.ForeignKey(Employer, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
job_title = models.CharField(max_length=50)
establishment_name = models.CharField(max_length = 50)
details = models.TextField(max_length = 2000)
salary = models.CharField(max_length = 20)
address = models.CharField(max_length = 50)
state = models.CharField(max_length = 20)
zip_code = models.CharField(max_length = 10)
def __str__(self):
return self.job_title + " - " + self.establishment_name \
+ ", " + self.poster.user.first_name + " " +self.poster.user.last_name
A user can register as an employer just fine, but I am having problems getting Jobs to save to the database. Once a user registers/logs in as an employer they are redirected to employer_home.html, where an employer can post a job:
{% extends 'core/base.html' %}
{% block body %}
<h1>Post a Job</h1>
<form>
{% csrf_token %}
{{ form.as_p }}
<button type="submit">Post</button>
</form>
{% endblock %}
Here is my forms.py:
from django.forms import ModelForm
from .models import Job
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.contrib.auth.forms import UserCreationForm
class EmployerSignupForm(UserCreationForm):
class Meta:
model = User
fields = ('first_name',
'last_name',
'email',
'username',
'password1',
'password2',)
class JobPostForm(ModelForm):
class Meta:
model = Job
fields= ('job_title',
'establishment_name',
'salary',
'address',
'state',
'zip_code',
)
and here is my employer_view(view to handle Job form):
def employer_home(request):
if request.method == 'POST':
form = JobPostForm(request.POST)
if form.is_valid():
form.save()
return HttpResponse('Working!')
else:
form = JobPostForm()
return render(request, 'core/employer_home.html', {'form': form})
employer_home.html displays a form with no problem, but when the form is submitted none of the data is saved to the database and the return HttpResponse('Working!') is never executed, it simply reloads the empty form. Does anyone know how to fix this?
